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TREATMENT OF OFFENDERS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1968 - SECT 24

Substitution of conditional discharge for probation.

24.(1) Where on an application made by an offender placed on probation or a
probation officer it appears to the court having power to discharge a
probation order made under section 1 of the Probation Act (Northern Ireland)
1950 that the order is no longer appropriate in the case of the offender, the
court may make, in substitution for the original probation order, an order
discharging him in respect of the original offence subject to the condition
that he commits no offence between the making of the order under this section
and the expiration of the probation period.

(2) A person in respect of whom an order is made under this section shall so
long as the said condition continues in force be treated in all respects and
in particular for the purposes of section 6 of the said Act of 1950
(commission of further offence) as if the original probation order made in his
case had been an order for conditional discharge made under section 5 of that
Act by the court which made that original order and as if the period of
conditional discharge were the same as the probation period.

(3) On the making of an order under this section the appropriate officer of
the court shall forthwith furnish sufficient copies thereof to the probation
officer, who shall deliver one copy to the person in respect of whom the order
is made and one copy to the person in charge of any institution in which that
person was required by the probation order to reside.

Subs.(4) amends s.16 of 1950 c.7 (NI)

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